Overview
Effective health systems need effective leaders. The IAP Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme trains emerging leaders (under the age of 40) working in medicine and public health as clinicians, educators, researchers and health policy makers health systems around the world and links them together in a peer-support network to improve health in their countries and globally.
The issue of developing leadership qualities among health professionals is often neglected, with many young professionals having to learn their leadership skills almost by trial and error as they are handed positions of responsibility.
Although incorporating leadership training programmes into the medical curriculum is gaining in importance, in practice too few countries are actually providing such training (See, for example: Health Professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world)
To contribute to building capacity in this area, IAP launched its Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme in 2011 in partnership with the World Health Summit (WHS) and the WHS Academic Alliance.
Sessions have been held at each WHS since 2011. In addition, a regional event was organized at the Regional WHS in Singapore in 2013 and in Portugal in 2018. A 5th year event for alumni was organized in May 2016 at the World Health Assembly.
To date, the IAP YPL network of alumni includes more than 280 leading young professionals, under the age of 40, who were nominated by their national academies. Their details can be found in the dedicated YPL Directory on the second tab at the top of this page.
The IAP YPL call for nominations is sent to IAP member academies and WHS Academic Alliance members every year in May.
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YPL Directory
2024



Public Health



Consultant Paediatrician/Specialist in Child Helath

Community Medicine

Health Research




General Doctor, palliative care, Gender and sexuality
Head of Department of Education and Research

Emergency Physician in Emergency and Trauma

Public Health, Clinical Research, Medical Education




Public Health


Preventive Medicine

Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases

Physician Affairs department, Medical Education
2023

Academic staff, Researcher at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

Assistant professor at the University of Chile

Academic Head of Department, Surgery, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Wisen assistant Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morphological and Functional

Mansoura Faculty of Medicine Lecturer of Nephrology. Phase Director and clinical placement academic lead- Mansoura-Manchester Program of Medical Education.
Public health expert, Director General's Office, World Health Organization (WHO)

Assistant Professor, Division of Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University

Affiliation Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Physician and Researcher

degree in Medicine and Surgery from University of Florence and DrPH from University of Pavia, and he is currently attending a PhD programme at Maastricht University.

Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Internal Medicine Department

Consultant in Diabetology/Lecturer of Epidemiology and Nutrition

University Malaya Medical Centre Clinical Specialist

Colombo North Centre For Liver Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya & Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

2 diplomas (Immunology and medical education) from Harvard medical school.

Doctor of Medicine degree from UNIMAS (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak), MSc from UKM (National University of Malaysia) in Clinical Nutrition and PhD from UCSI University

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Anaesthesiology and Critical Care

Assistant professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
2022

Vascular Surgery, Health services research, healthcare artificial intelligence

Psychiatry

Clinical leadership (Surgeon) and Medical Education

Medical Education

Global and Public Health, health systems and policies, sexual and reproductive health , rights and advocacy, Evidence based influence , leadership in science, medical journalism, editing, reviewing and authorship for books and journals, health services


Public Health Management; Health Regulation; Maternal and Child Health, Immunization

Geriatric Medicine

Medicine, Tropical Medicine, General Surgery, Neurosurgery
Medical parasitology, Tropical diseases, Molecular diagnostics

Pediatrics, Medical education


Infectology with a focus in HIV, tropical medicine, tuberculosis, endemic diseases, viral hepatitis, and COVID-19.

Public Health

Medical education, infectious disease diagnostics, mycobacteriology/tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance and biosafety

Specialty in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Global Surgery

Neurology, Global Health

Infectious diseases / public health

Public Health Medicine

Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, healthcare and hospital management, health policy
2021

Public Health

Public Health

Internal Medicine

Surgical Care, Oncology, Health Policy, Digital Care

Public Health

Internal Medicine

General Internal Medicine (pre-subspecialty training)

Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Medicine
Neurological Surgery

Neurology

Mental health of children and adolescents in an educational context

Parasitology and Medical Entomology

Internal Medicine, Public Health

Regenerative Medicine

RESEACRH AREA: Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine (TERM)
ACADEMIC CORE FIELD: Molecular Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy
NICHE AREA: Neuro-Trauma Intervention
CROSS CUTTING INTERVENTION: Molecular Simulation and Image Processing

Medicine, epidemiology, health economics, public health, health technology assessment

Psychiatry

Neurosurgery
2019

General Medicine, Health Policy, Maternal and Child Health

Public Health Medicine

Critical Care, Oncology, Oxidative Stress, Translational Medicine

Public Health

Pharmaceutical Medicine, Medical Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Governance

Respiratory physiology and psychopathology. Regenerative Medicine: bioengineering and stem cell therapy. Medical education.


Cardiovascular Medicine

General Ophthalmology, Cornea and External Eye Diseases. Advancing Eye-care through Artificial Intelligence.

Plastic and reconstructive surgery - sub-specialization, General surgery - specialization

Public Health and Infectious Diseases

Public Health

Pharmacovigilance


Cardiology: Diseases of the Heart and Vessels, epidemiology and Statistics, Medical Education

Neurology: headache disorders, cerebrovascular diseases,neurosonology; Neuroimaging

Radiology

Biomedical and health informatics; Health data science; Machine learning in health

General Surgery

Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Critical Care, HIV and TB Research, Public Health


Ophthalmology, Anterior eye segment, Cornea-, Cataract and, Refractive Surgery, Imaging

Medical Genetics

2018








Public Health



Bone and calcium metabolism, Cell and molecular biology, pre-clinical animal models



Tuberculosis, antibiotic stewardship, pneumocystis pneumonia

Dr. Shuvra Dasgupta has worked as an Emergency Physician Consultant and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Kingston Jamaica since 2011. She is also the Director of the Pre-Hospital Medical Services Programme, which is an Educational Unit that teaches Emergency Medical Services (EMS). She has a wide range of clinical and research interests, but one of her main focuses has been to bring EMS to the forefront in her country through education, research and clinical intervention. Eventually she hopes that her initiatives will bring about policy change in a country where a centralized EMS system is non-existent. During this worldwide pandemic, she works on the frontline of one of the largest hospitals in the country and has been involved with the day to day ‘solution-oriented’ management of dealing with the CoVid-19 response in Jamaica.
Apart from her Doctor of Medicine in Emergency Medicine, she also holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins University majoring in Injury Control and Disaster Preparedness. Shuvra lives in Kingston. In her free time, she reads and loves going to the beach. She also enjoys spending time with family, friends and her black lab Lola.


2017





















2016


Public Health, Health Systems, Health Financing




Public Health, Epidemiology, Clinical Trials

Pediatrics, Medical Physics Education, PhD student in childhood leukemia

Toxicology (Snake Envenoming), Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Medicine


Public Health, Epidemiology, Disaster Management & Climate Change, Medical Leadership

Public Health – Health Policy Planning and Management

Global Health and Clinical Researcher, Medical Doctor

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Coming Soon

PUBLIC HEALTH (HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT), OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY


Medicine

Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology

Coming Soon

Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology


Gastroenterology and Hepatology
2015

Psychiatry: Novel Treatments for Mood Disorders

Internal medicine
Masters in Development Economics (candidate)

Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Family Physician / Anatomy and Embryology

Internal Medicine, Tropical and Infectious Diseases

Public Health Medicine

- Pediatrics, Neonatology, Neonatal Transport Medicine- Immunology, Flow Cytometry


Respiratory Medicine

cardiovascular and metabolic diseases

Infectious Diseases, Public Health

Microbiology with special interest in antibiotic resistance, molecular microbiology and molecular epidemiology

Cardiac surgery, cardiology, biomechanics

Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine (Joint Accreditation)


Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology

Indegenous people's health, Local health systems development

AnaesthesiologyIntensive Care Medicine

Neurosurgery
2014

Diabetes and diabetic complications.

Medical Doctor _ General Surgeon Consultant specialization in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery as Senior Clinical Assistant Professor with clinical and laboratory experiences in translational/clinically oriented research in the field of liver surgery and liver transplantation.Head of Experimental Surgery and Training Center of 1st Department of Surgery, Semmelweis University

Stroke neurology, medical education, translational research

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with special interest in feto-maternal medicine.

Infectious Diseases



HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT/ PROJECT MANAGEMENT/HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT/HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Public Health

Clinical Epidemiology

Biochemistry Biogerontology


Cardiology/Clinical Epidemiology _ Large-Scale Clinical Trials

Cardiology, Cardiac imaging

Public Health and Health RegulationsSocial Health Insurance Policy and Benefit Development Pharmaceuticals Policy and Operational Management Pharmaceutical Access

Medicine _ Colorectal Surgery _ Rectal Cancer

Infectious Diseases, Global Health


Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
2013

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE, GENERAL SURGERY

pediatrics, nephrology, diabetology, molecular biology



INTERNAL MEDICINE/ENDOCRINOLOGY

Economic Evaluation, Health Technology Assessment, Health Services & Policy, Health Outcomes Measurement, Population Health Intervention, Mobile Health, E-Health, HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, Obesity

Immunology of human infectious diseases with high impact on public health

Nephrology, Hemodialysis

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine



Paediatrics and Child Health - Nephrology

Haematology

Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation

RESPIRATORY AND GASTROINTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY, GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE AND ASTHMA

Urology, molecular biology and translational research for urologic oncology and infectious urologic diseases

Internal Medicine
Endocrinology

Infectious Diseases

General Paediatric and Paediatric Neurology with special interest in epilepsy

Public Health Research
Teaching

Medical education - Dermatology

Neuroscience and psychiatry

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Ophthalmology ñ Retina

Infectious Diseases

Nephrology

2012

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Ophthalmology

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, General Pediatrics

Infectious Diseases
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,

Cardiology

Clinical HIV medicine and research

Rehabilitation Medicine

Cardiology ñ Sleep Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Public Health and Preventive Community Medicine

HISTOPATHOLOGY (SUBSPECIALTY TRAINING IN RENAL PATHOLOGY)

DERMATOLOGY, DERMATOPATHOLOGY

Public Health / Community Medicine

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY (CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES)

Evidence based Health Care, Epidemiology and Public Health

Endocrinology and diabetes

Public Health
2011

Internal Medicine and Cardiology
Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases

Primary Care Medicine, Family Medicine, Chronic Disease Management, Cardiovascular Risks Prevention

Haematology.Haemato-oncology and Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Internal Medicine and Neurology


Public health, epidemiology

Cardiology, Nuclear Medicine, Cardiovascular imaging, Atherosclerosis, Molecular imaging

Oncology, Chemotherapy

Neuroscience

Basic research : Vascular biology (atherosclerosis and aneuvrysm) and immuno-inflammatory response
Clinical research: Endothelial dysfunction and septic shock

Obstetric and Gynecology
Physician, Young Investigator

Psychiatry (field of special interest: Neuropsychiatry)

Neurology, Vascular Neurology, Neurorehabilitation, Genomic epidemiology

Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Clinical and Molecular Microbiologist

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Specialist physician in adult internal medicine - Lead physician for renal medicine.

Malaria transmission (Clinical epidemiology, Clinical trial, Diagnostic devices, Management and Care)
2: Field of specialization in Academic:
Teaching (Clinical epidemiology, Research methodology and Community health) subjects

Neurology (in particular, Parkinsonís Disease & Movement Disorders)

Haemato-oncology

Orthopaedic Surgery

General Medicine and diabetes